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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lobbied against TikTok in Washington months before President Trump threatened to ban the popular Chinese-owned app, according to a report. The social-media magnate raised concerns about the rise of Chinese tech companies in a private October dinner with President Trump, White House adviser Jared Kushner and billionaire tech tycoon Peter Thiel, …
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The Trump administration is weighing a fast-tracked process that would allow AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine to be used in the US before November’s presidential election, a new report says. One plan under consideration would see the Food and Drug Administration issue an “emergency use authorization” for the British drugmaker’s vaccine candidate in October, the Financial Times …
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TikTok confirmed Saturday that it would be suing the Trump administration for ordering its Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. operations. Trump signed an executive order earlier in August giving the company 90 days to sell off its U.S. TikTok assets. TikTok spokesman Josh Gartner told The Verge Saturday the company had no …
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Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he doesn’t “know anything about” the QAnon conspiracy theory and that he dismisses it “out of hand” while denying having heard President Trump’s recent embrace of its followers. On Friday morning CNN’s John Berman questioned the vice president on the conspiracy theory, which claims Trump and his allies …
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Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to President Trump pardoning former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, a move Trump suggested over the weekend that he was mulling. “He was a traitor and the information he provided our adversaries greatly hurt the safety of the American people,” Barr told the Associated Press. …
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TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump issued an executive order on Aug. 14 that gave ByteDance 90 days to divest the US operations …
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Robert Trump’s ex-wife has paid tribute to him on Instagram — as she revealed that neither she nor her son had been invited to his White House funeral service. Blaine Trump, who was married to President Trump’s younger brother from 1984 until 2008, posted a photo from their wedding renewal in the 1990s, as friends …
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and other company executives have been discussing a “kill switch” to shut off political advertising after the election is over to curb misinformation, the New York Times reported Friday, citing unnamed sources. Facebook is looking at post-election scenarios that include attempts by President Trump or his campaign to use the …
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President Donald Trump will host a funeral service at the White House Friday for his younger brother Robert who died aged 71 after ‘suffering brain bleeds from a recent fall’, according to sources familiar with the matter. Robert’s body will be driven from New York to the White House for the private service, which will …
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden slammed President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, vowing that his first action if he is elected president will be to “get control of the virus that has ruined so many lives.” “Our current president has failed in his most …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lobbied against TikTok in Washington months before President Trump threatened to ban the popular Chinese-owned app, according to a report. The social-media magnate raised concerns about the rise of Chinese tech companies in a private October dinner with President Trump, White House adviser Jared Kushner and billionaire tech tycoon Peter Thiel, …
